Nguoi anh hùng Lam Son

Lê Lai was a peasant soldier native of the region of Lam Son.
He enlisted in the troops of Lê Lai.
This one who was nicknamed hero of "cotton clothes" due to his modest origins, chose Lam Son as a center for rallying partisans in their resistance against the Chinese domination in 15th century.

It was in a phase of decisive struggle that Le Lai was besieged at the Chí Linh mountain by the Chinese determined to capture him to render the resistance leaderless.

Le Lai had an idea of looking for someone who would accept to disguise himself under his traits, fight and retreat in another direction to trick the Chinese in their pursuit and thus allow him to escape and continue the struggle for liberation.

Among his troops there was a soldier of the name Nguoi Thân who consented to play this stratagem.

As foreseen, the Chinese followed the false Lê Lai, captured him and killed him.

Thanks to Nguoi Thân, Lê Lai, after 10 years of struggle, triumphed and founded the dynasty of the Le who would reign almost one hundred years.

Admiring the man who had accepted to die in his stead, and the sacrifice of Nguoi Thân for the great national cause, Lê Lai granted the latter the privilege of bearing the royal family name Le and the individual name Lai, and ordered posterity to perpetuate Le Lai's anniversary which falls on the eighth month of the lunar year.

This has recalled in the Vietnamese youth a sublime sense of solidarity between the individual and the great cause, of which Lê Lai is the supreme illustration.

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